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Post by Dr. Waldorf X on May 18, 2011 21:53:07 GMT -5
kotaku.com/5802908/portal-2-finds-a-way-to-offendOk, well, let's look at the most obvious ways this is stupid: 1: The jokes are coming from the villains. You know, the ones who're trying to kill Chell and the ones you're trying to beat. 2: The news report claims that the game is "educational." Portal is in no way an educational game. There is an unbelievably massive difference between a puzzle game and an educational game. 3: The people reporting the story are trying to claim that Sony is trying to push the blame on Valve, even though Sony has nothing to do with the game and their claims that Sony distributes it are wrong. 4: The game is NOT rated E for Everyone, it is rated E10+, which means it may have content that is not entirely child friendly. They failed to actually do some research on the ESRB's system before making their claims that the game is for kids. 5: The father seems to think its "throwing the question into the open," when the jokes are meant to be attempts to demean Chell and, again, these are the villains making the jokes.
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Post by Dragon Zachski on May 18, 2011 23:05:02 GMT -5
You know, the whole point of the villain is to be a figure to which you can point and say "Don't be like that."
You could play a video game where the villain is a satanic homosexual and the hero is a godly paladin, and parents will STILL freak out because "Oh my god, it's encouraging satanism and homosexuality!"
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Post by Art Vandelay on May 18, 2011 23:52:44 GMT -5
Some overly sensitive PC twit is crying about something completely nonsensical as though normal people are supposed to give a shit. Gee, I'm in shock over here.
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Post by TWoozl on May 19, 2011 0:01:40 GMT -5
I'm not sure what's more pathetic. The tempest in a tea-cup over this non-issue or the contents of the Kotaku discussion thread in the OP's link. If this actually turns into some kind of petty legal action against Valve because some tissue-skinned idiot takes personal offense at a piece of mass-market media having a medium-evil AI in it with some genuinely funny dialog, well... I'll probably be looking for some ammunition to eat. Sooner or later, humanity is going to hit a stupidity and pettiness threshold I can't ignore.
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Post by Shane for Wax on May 19, 2011 0:18:33 GMT -5
I'm... uh... uhr...
Brain broke.
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Post by ironbite on May 19, 2011 0:19:56 GMT -5
Just when I think we've reached the bottom of the barrel of stupidity....I see this.
Ironbite-just...wow.
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Post by Shane for Wax on May 19, 2011 0:24:30 GMT -5
There's defending adopted kids then there's being downright STUPID.
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Post by dakotabob on May 19, 2011 1:30:42 GMT -5
Somebody call the WHAAAAAAAAAAAHMbulance, looks like we have a patient!
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Post by Goosey on May 19, 2011 5:45:42 GMT -5
Well, the character of GLaDOS is modelled on the "psychotic ex" archetype. In any other medium, that character would be expected to make a low blow like that; in this case, it's only offensive because it's a video game. Which is stupid. And ignorant. And stupid.
On the other hand, I did think the adoption thing was the one part of Portal 2 that was a bit overwrought. It was funny in the first game, where it was just one throwaway line, "It also says you were adopted, so that's funny too." I didn't quite believe that GLaDOS, in her emotional state, would stick with that theme for so long. It felt a little bit like GLaDOS' character was compromised to provide a set-up for Wheatley's ineffectual attempts to berate Chell in the third act. But not in any real major way. I suppose it stretched credibility but didn't quite break it.
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Post by Iosa the Invincible on May 19, 2011 7:46:36 GMT -5
So where's all the fat people bitching about the weight jokes?
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Post by Mantorok on May 19, 2011 8:06:15 GMT -5
This thread needs more Space Core:
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Post by scienceisgreen on May 19, 2011 8:21:42 GMT -5
Just when I think we've reached the bottom of the barrel of stupidity....I see this. Ironbite-just...wow. There is no bottom to the barrel, I thought you knew this  |
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Post by Shane for Wax on May 19, 2011 13:09:36 GMT -5
I'll give them something... I now really want to play thru the entire game just to see what they're all bitching about.
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Post by Dragon Zachski on May 19, 2011 13:36:32 GMT -5
Well, the character of GLaDOS is modelled on the "psychotic ex" archetype. In any other medium, that character would be expected to make a low blow like that; in this case, it's only offensive because it's a video game. Which is stupid. And ignorant. And stupid. On the other hand, I did think the adoption thing was the one part of Portal 2 that was a bit overwrought. It was funny in the first game, where it was just one throwaway line, "It also says you were adopted, so that's funny too." I didn't quite believe that GLaDOS, in her emotional state, would stick with that theme for so long. It felt a little bit like GLaDOS' character was compromised to provide a set-up for Wheatley's ineffectual attempts to berate Chell in the third act. But not in any real major way. I suppose it stretched credibility but didn't quite break it. Well, bearing in mind that she was dead, forced to relive the moment of her death over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again for a very very VERY long time. Imagine if that was you. And you had the person who did that to you in your grasp for as long as you wished. And you wanted them to suffer psychologically. |
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Post by szaleniec on May 19, 2011 19:16:26 GMT -5
You know, the whole point of the villain is to be a figure to which you can point and say "Don't be like that." You could play a video game where the villain is a satanic homosexual and the hero is a godly paladin, and parents will STILL freak out because "Oh my god, it's encouraging satanism and homosexuality!" It's like those fuckwits who moaned about Voldemort's might makes right philosophy. He's the villain! |
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